Abstract: A survey of 200 adults of Naxi nationality (including 94 males' and 106. females) wasmade in May 1989. The results were as follows:
Naxi nationality belongs to yellow race and may be grouped under Eastern Asian type of Mongoloid judging from their morphological features of appearance and some major meanvalues of measurements.
In view of the cluster graph of kinship matrix for Han nationality and other nationalitiesliving in Yunnan, the physical characters of Naxi. nationality are closer. to, Lishu, .Jingpo, Yiand Han nationality than other nationalities.

Key words: Somatoscopy; Anthropometry; Naxi nationality; Yunnan